I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
E.L. DoctorowSatire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
E.L. DoctorowTag: truth satire balance ridicule fairness bias
And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel.
Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me...
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
E.L. DoctorowTag: power-of-words reflection introspection
Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed, but by whose judgments we measured our waywardness.
E.L. DoctorowPoems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
E.L. DoctorowTag: poetry
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
E.L. DoctorowPoor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.
E.L. DoctorowTag: death self salvation self-awareness immigrant
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
E.L. DoctorowI remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.
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